New York A 9243: Increases the crime victim assistance fee, creates a crime victim's lien and creates a crime victim's assistance account

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A09243 Summary:

BILL NOA09243 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORDiPietro

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§80.00, 80.05 & 60.35, Pen L; add §94-c, St Fin L

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Increases the mandatory surcharge and the crime victim's assistance fee which is levied upon any person convicted of a crime or violation in this state; creates a crime victim's lien which allows such recovery against a convicted offender in the amount of the unpaid portion of the mandatory surcharge or the crime victim's assistance fee; creates a crime victim's assistance account.

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BILL NOA09243 

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11/07/2025referred to codes

01/07/2026referred to codes

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Go to topA09243 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 9243

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 November 7, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. DiPIETRO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
 tee on Codes

 AN ACT to amend the penal law and the state finance law, in relation to
 increasing the crime victim assistance fee, creating a crime victim's
 lien and creating a crime victim's assistance account

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Section 80.00 of the penal law is amended by adding a new
 2 subdivision 8 to read as follows:
 3 8. The term "fine" as defined in this section shall not include a
 4 mandatory surcharge or a crime victim assistance fee as defined in
 5 section 60.35 of this title.
 6 § 2. Section 80.05 of the penal law is amended by adding a new subdi-
 7 vision 7 to read as follows:
 8 7. The term "fine" as defined in this section shall not include a
 9 mandatory surcharge or a crime victim assistance fee as defined in
 10 section 60.35 of this title.
 11 § 3. Section 60.35 of the penal law, as amended by section 1 of part E
 12 of chapter 56 of the laws of 2004, subparagraphs (i), (ii) and (iii) of
 13 paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 as amended by section 1 of part DD of
 14 chapter 56 of the laws of 2008, paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 as
 15 amended by chapter 320 of the laws of 2006, subdivision 4 as amended by
 16 chapter 525 of the laws of 2013, subdivision 5 as amended by chapter 322
 17 of the laws of 2021, and subdivision 8 as amended by section 121 of
 18 subpart B of part C of chapter 62 of the laws of 2011, is amended to
 19 read as follows:
 20 § 60.35 Mandatory surcharge, sex offender registration fee, DNA databank
 21 fee, supplemental sex offender victim fee and crime victim
 22 assistance fee required in certain cases.
 23 1. (a) Except as provided in section eighteen hundred nine of the
 24 vehicle and traffic law and section 27.12 of the parks, recreation and
 25 historic preservation law, whenever proceedings in an administrative
 26 tribunal or a court of this state result in a conviction for a felony, a
 27 misdemeanor, or a violation, as these terms are defined in section 10.00

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD13455-01-5

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 1 of this chapter, there shall be levied at sentencing a mandatory
 2 surcharge, sex offender registration fee, DNA databank fee and a crime
 3 victim assistance fee in addition to any sentence required or permitted
 4 by law, in accordance with the following schedule:
 5 (i) a person convicted of a felony, excluding those felonies set forth
 6 in clauses (A) and (B) of this subparagraph, shall pay a mandatory
 7 surcharge of three hundred dollars and a crime victim assistance fee of
 8 [twenty-five] five hundred dollars;
 9 (A) A person convicted of a felony offense of homicide, as defined in
 10 section 125.00 of this chapter, shall pay a mandatory surcharge of five
 11 hundred dollars and a crime victim assistance fee of two thousand five
 12 hundred dollars for every month of which such person is sentenced to
 13 serve time in a correctional facility, as defined in section forty of
 14 the correction law;
 15 (B) A person convicted of a violent felony offense, as defined in
 16 section 70.02 of this chapter, shall pay a mandatory surcharge of